William Goldman, the prolific writer behind several American film classics, died last night. Deadline reported the news this morning, saying Goldman died surrounded by friends and family after his health began to deteriorate over the summer. He was 87.
Mike Schur spoke with The Daily Beast about The Good Place, shirtless Chidi, and the “Doug Forcett fiasco,” but the mind behind Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine also offered a compelling response to a tough question: Would he work with Parks and Rec’s Aziz Ansari again after the actor was hit with …
Former First Lady, best-selling author, and person who claims she is never, ever running for public office (ever), Michelle Obama stopped by for an extra-long appearance on Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! And while she was predictably charming, funny, and intelligent (look, she’s not running, and that’s final), host…
Because nobody wants to get yelled at by both Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese on the same day—triggering what we can only assume would be some sort of spittle-flecked existential flashback to the golden age of ’70s boy auteurs—WarnerMedia, parent company of embattled movie streaming site FilmStruck, has relented…
The Good Place’s points system for judging the eventual worth of a human life is intentionally inscrutable and unfair—who among us hasn’t occasionally been moved to steal copper wiring from a decommissioned military base, huh?—but we’re pretty sure that surreptitiously filming your cast mates in a moment of unguarded…
Look, let’s be very clear: We’re always happy to see Will Forte get more work. (R.I.P. Last Man On Earth, MacGruber, and the SNL potato chip NASA guy.) And current Saturday Night Live cast member Heidi Gardner is a consistent treat. But still: There’s something a little on the nose in the news that Syfy has just hired…
We’re not sure if you’ve heard, but this television thing has become a pretty big deal. Even big movie stars who wouldn’t normally be caught dead watching a TV have signed on to TV projects recently, which has been the case for a long time now but we’re pretending its a new trend for comedic effect! Anyway, according…
Netflix took another stab at expanding its considerable slate of animated offerings today, albeit in one of the weirder ways we’ve seen in recent years: Per THR, the company has picked up the four-episode miniseries The Liberator, which combines a story of World War II atrocities with a new and ambitious animation…
Hulu’s Veronica Mars revival already has Max Greenfield reprising his role from the original series, Patton Oswalt playing a pizza delivery guy who is obsessed with murder, and Kirby Howell-Baptiste reuniting with her Good Place buddy Kristen Bell, and now—in addition to nearly everybody else from the original…
Those who tuned into last night’s Country Music Awards might have picked up on a few surprises, like Miranda Lambert’s rare loss to Carrie Underwood for Female Vocalist of the Year, or the unrelenting grip that Yodeling Boy has kept on his 15 minutes of fame. Another pleasant shock came with one of the biggest wins of…
Actor and comedian Kumail Nanjiani continues to parlay his lifelong nerd-dom into starring roles in some of sci-fi and horror’s most celebrated franchises; the Big Sick star—who had a major role in an episode of the first revived series of The X-Files, after years of doing a podcast about the show—has now scored a…
December is typically a wintry month well-suited to Holiday-themed content, but apparently nobody told Amazon Prime about our human traditions. The streaming service clearly couldn’t care less about holidays or wintriness, as its offerings in December could just as easily be coming in one of the loser months like May…
We’ve just about reached our fill of talking about Threatin, the mostly real band with an entirely fake fanbase that duped a series of UK music venues into letting them play a series of concerts that nobody came to, but now we’ve got a shocking new development in the ongoing Threatin saga that will definitely blow…
We’ll have to continue waiting for the Elton John biopic as its creators finish figuring out how to transfer the singer-songwriter’s charisma to Taron Egerton, an actor who is, notably, Not Tom Hardy. In the meantime, however, British department store John Lewis & Partners has provided a smaller recounting of the…
Zayn Malik (*ahem*: Zayn) has been teasing his sophomore album for what feels like ages now, and a new Vogue profile of the one-time One Directioner offered no more clarity as to when it will arrive. Malik did, however, provide what sounds to be a definitive answer regarding another mystery: Does Taylor Swift travel…
Every day, the internet is flooded with new videos that up-and-coming comedians have spent weeks, sometimes months working on. And, frankly, a lot of them aren’t very good. That’s what makes it all the more impressive that—in honor of his 31st birthday this year—comedian and ClickHole contributor Joe Kwaczala uploaded…
Even if you don’t have a ridiculous amount of money to blow on stupid garbage, everybody loves a good auction of pop culture memorabilia. Where else can you get a shirt with a bird on it that was worn by a guy on TV, or a stapler you may have seen in the background once, or an opportunity to be buried in a famous grave
Social media is exhausting, so it was only a matter of time until someone brought it to game night, where learning the rules takes longer than the game itself. The good news is that we all already know how to conjure up a fake, more appealing existence for ourselves online, and that’s exactly the goal of a new board…
Coldplay’s never really gone. Even when they’re not recording, touring, or tabloiding, Chris Martin and company are memorably hobnobbing with celebrities, forecasting their collapse, or seeing their tunes reimagined in zeitgeisty flicks. Case in point: As an epilogue of sorts to their A Head Full Of Dreams album…
Kanye West, always one step ahead of the rest, has found an unlikely collaborator: Mark “World’s Oldest Boy” Zuckerberg. In the past, fans may have balked at his decision to work with Bon Iver or Katy Perry, but the results have been better than expected. Now, though, in a year when West has been working tirelessly to …
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